Psalms 8:5

Psalms chapter 8 · verse 5 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor.

King James Version · 1611

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

American Standard Version · 1901

For thou hast made him but little lower than God, And crownest him with glory and honor.

v.4What is man, that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou visitest him?

v.5This passage

v.6Thou makest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet:

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

Genesis 1:26
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
1 Peter 1:20
who was foreknown indeed before the foundation of the world, but was manifested at the end of the times for your sake,
Psalms 103:20
Bless Jehovah, ye his angels, That are mighty in strength, that fulfil his word, Hearkening unto the voice of his word.
Hebrews 2:9
But we behold him who hath been made a little lower than the angels, even Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for every man.
Psalms 103:4
Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; Who crowneth thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies;
Philippians 2:7
but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men;